Reminiscences on the Lake

Author: Cao Juren
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This set of "Modern and Contemporary Masters' Travel Essays and Photography Collection" presented to the readers has a brand-new visual effect. Such novelty allows us to proudly declare that a picture-and-word era has been raised. Of course, it is also old; in the relationship between painting and inscriptions in literati painting during the Ming and Qing dynasties, we can find a solid historical foundation. Reading images was once seen as (naive), (shallow in emotion), and (restless in spirit). However, it is precisely in reading images that we discover the undimmed innocence, lingering vitality, and lively sensibility. Pictures and words are different from illustrations. In illustrated books, images are merely decorations that closely depend on the text. But for picture-and-word books, images form their own system, echoing each other. They are possessed by the text but repeatedly slip through the gaps in the words, directly showing their light and color to the world, and attracting the text to possess them once more.